The sense that a dead person is still with us is both eerie and common: can we find a naturalistic explanation for it?

Imagine two friends, Elena and Leo, are heading to a party. Leo asks Elena whether Sophie is already there. Elena answers: ‘Yes, she is at the party,’ because Sophie had told her earlier that she’d be ...

Last month, while clearing a drawer, I found a printout of André Breton’s ‘Manifesto of Surrealism’ (1924). The essay launched a movement that revolutionised art through beautiful, bizarre hybrids of ...

How much the sexes differ psychologically depends on how fair and wealthy a country is. But not in the way you’d think Surprisingly, researchers have sometimes found the opposite to be true: that ...

The Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969 was an extraordinary scientific achievement. It was also an extraordinary epistemological achievement. Not only did a man walk on the Moon but, almost ...

The US writer George Saunders, a winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award, is celebrated for both his masterful prose and his empathetic storytelling. In this short video, he ...

In 392 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I outlawed one of the oldest and most well-established mystery cults in the Greek-speaking world, the Eleusinian Mysteries, which had taken place for more than ...

The early Chinese philosophers knew that a healthy mind comes from a harmonious community, not a matter for individuals alone Mental illness is often thought to be a matter of individual disorder.

The great historian came of age at the end of British rule in India. Now 94, she continues to defy a regime determined to ...

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A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...